The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ABASE , but the solution may also be DERIDE which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Put down crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ABASE | 14 % | 5 |
| LAID | 14 % | 4 |
| LAY | 11 % | 3 |
| DEMEAN | 5 % | 6 |
| DIS | 5 % | 3 |
| SLUR | 4 % | 4 |
| QUELL | 3 % | 5 |
| ABASED | 3 % | 6 |
| QUASH | 3 % | 5 |
| DERIDE | 3 % | 6 |
| ALIT | 2 % | 4 |
| SLAM | 2 % | 4 |
| INSULTED | 1 % | 8 |
| SET | 1 % | 3 |
| ENTER | 1 % | 5 |
| DERIDED | 1 % | 7 |
| DISSED | 1 % | 6 |
| NOTE | 1 % | 4 |
| ATE | 1 % | 3 |
| DECRY | 1 % | 5 |
| DEBASE | 1 % | 6 |
| QUELLED | 1 % | 7 |
| ABASH | 1 % | 5 |
| SLAP | 1 % | 4 |
| WROTE | 1 % | 5 |
| BERATE | 1 % | 6 |
| DEMEANED | 1 % | 8 |
| LOWER | 1 % | 5 |
| SNUB | 1 % | 4 |
| LAIN | 1 % | 4 |
| PLACE | 1 % | 5 |
| ASPERSE | 1 % | 7 |
| STIFLE | 1 % | 6 |
| DENIGRATE | 1 % | 9 |
| DISS | 1 % | 4 |
| BELITTLE | 1 % | 8 |
| PLUNK | 1 % | 5 |
| REBUKE | 1 % | 6 |
| WRITE | 1 % | 5 |
| PENNED | 1 % | 6 |
| REPRESS | 1 % | 7 |
| NOTED | 1 % | 5 |
| JAB | 1 % | 3 |
| DEGRADE | 1 % | 7 |
| RIP | 1 % | 3 |
| ALIGHTED | 0 % | 8 |
| TAUNT | 0 % | 5 |
| BADMOUTH | 0 % | 8 |
| DEPRESS | 0 % | 7 |
| CRUSHED | 0 % | 7 |
| ENTERED | 0 % | 7 |
| DEBASED | 0 % | 7 |
| SUBDUE | 0 % | 6 |
| PAN | 0 % | 3 |
| LAND | 0 % | 4 |
| PLUNKED | 0 % | 7 |
| INTER | 0 % | 5 |
| CUT | 0 % | 3 |
| AFFRONT | 0 % | 7 |
| DEFLATE | 0 % | 7 |
| LANDED | 0 % | 6 |
| DISPARAGED | 0 % | 10 |
| INSULT | 0 % | 6 |
| ALIGHT | 0 % | 6 |
| BELITTLEMENT | 0 % | 12 |
| DEPOSITED | 0 % | 9 |
| LOWERED | 0 % | 7 |
| JOT | 0 % | 3 |
| BERATED | 0 % | 7 |
| SLANDER | 0 % | 7 |
| EAT | 0 % | 3 |
Why may INSULTED be the right solution?
The answer "INSULTED" fits the clue "Put down" because when someone is insulted, they are being verbally or emotionally put down.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Put down
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- get down
- write down
- set down
- lay
- bring down
- unload
- repose
- enter
- degrade
- demean
- disgrace
- land
Crossword Answer definitions
ABASE verb- To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.
- To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.
- To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result ABASE
More clues leading to the result LAID
- Made eggs?
- Placed
- __-back (easygoing)
- Put down, as track
- Set down
- __ out (knocked cold)
- Installed carpet
- Produced, as eggs
- _____ money on (bet)
- Installed, as carpet
More clues leading to the result LAY
- Common
- Produce hen fruit
- Frito-__
- Not of the clergy
- Put down, as carpet
- Put down, as track
- Place, as a bet
- Produce an egg
- Bang
- Don Juan's conquest
More clues leading to the result DEMEAN
- Take down a peg
- Abase
- Lower in dignity
- Put down
- Cut down to size
- Humble
- Humiliate
- Lower in status
- Take down a few pegs
- Hardly dignify
More clues leading to the result DIS
- Belittle, in slang
- Put down, modern-style
- Treat without respect
- Trash
- Treat without respect, slangily
- Drive filler
- Bad-mouth, in the 'hood
- Put down, in the 'hood
- Insult at the center of this puzzle's long answers
- Bad-mouth
More clues leading to the result SLUR
- Aspersion
- Pronounce indistinctly
- Disparage
- Calumny
- Bad-mouth
- Cast aspersions on
- Insulting words
- N-bomb, e.g.
- Sound like you've had a few too many
- Speak indistinctly
More clues leading to the result QUELL
- Suppress
- Head off
- Pacify
- Put down forcefully
- Put down forcibly
- Put down
- Extinguish
- Stifle
- Put down, as a riot
- Suppress, as a revolt
More clues leading to the result ABASED
- Brought down
- Humiliated
- Dragged down
- Humbled
- Degraded
- Took down more than a peg
- Lowered in rank
- Belittled
- Demeaned
- Shamed
More clues leading to the result QUASH
- Suppress forcefully
- Nullify
- Put down
- Subdue
- Suppress, as a subpoena
- Vacate, as an indictment
- Suppress completely
- Suppress
- Keep from spreading, as a rumor
- Sit on
More clues leading to the result DERIDE
- Ridicule
- Twit
- Mock
- Put down
- Express contempt for
- Scoff at
- Treat with contempt
- Subject to ridicule
- Slam
- Make fun of
More clues leading to the result ALIT
- Came down
- Came down to earth
- Came to earth
- Completed a jump
- Got down
- Got off
- Landed
- Touched down
- Touched the ground
- Came to rest
More clues leading to the result SLAM
- Bridge coup
- Bridge triumph
- Criticize harshly
- Harsh criticism
- Shut forcefully
- Shut hard
- __-dunk
- Big name in basketball magazines
- Bridge feat
- Close a door with force
More clues leading to the result INSULTED
More clues leading to the result SET
- Challenging card game
- Complete group
- Congeal
- Gel
- Get firm
- Jet follower
- Kind of point or shot
- Play opener
- Salon job
- Solidify
More clues leading to the result ENTER
- "Step right in!"
- "__ Laughing" ('67 film)
- Log
- Oft-used computer key
- PC key
- Stage direction
- Become a member
- Computer key
- Go in
- Go onstage
More clues leading to the result DERIDED
- Mocked
- Pooh-poohed
- Scoffed at
- Snickered at
- Knocked
- Put down
- Showed contempt for
- Jeered at
- Gibed.
- Laughed to scorn.
More clues leading to the result DISSED
- Not respected
- Bad-mouthed, in slang
- Bad-mouthed
- Put down
- Showed disrespect toward
- Put down, slangily
- Knocked
- Attacked, in a way
- Treated without respect, in Gore-speak
- Criticized, as with a song like "Takeover"
More clues leading to the result NOTE
- It's found in scores
- Quick message
- Short message
- Thank-you item
- Quickie correspondence
- Mark down
- Memo
- Pay attention
- Piece of music
- Whole or half, in music
More clues leading to the result ATE
- "Thanks, I already __"
- Absorbed, as a cost
- Bolted down
- Broke bread
- Consumed
- Corroded
- Devoured
- Dined out
- Downed
- Dug in
More clues leading to the result DECRY
- Belittle
- Condemn
- Put down
- Openly criticize
- Disparage
- Pooh-pooh
- Speak ill of
- Strongly disapprove of
- Denounce
- Discredit
More clues leading to the result DEBASE
- Contaminate
- Lower in character
- Take away the dignity of
- Humiliate
- Reduce in value
- Vilify
- Lower
- Adulterate
- Lower in quality
- Corrupt morally
More clues leading to the result QUELLED
More clues leading to the result ABASH
- Embarrass
- Discompose
- Disconcert
- Make ill at ease
- Cow
- Put to shame
- Humiliate
- Bring shame to
- Destroy the self-confidence of
- Make ashamed
More clues leading to the result SLAP
- Duel invitation, perhaps
- High-five sound
- Hockey shot
- Insult
- Pincher's punishment, often
- Rebuff
- Sharp insult
- "Fresh!" follow-up
- Fresh response
- Kind of shot
More clues leading to the result WROTE
- Penned
- Composed
- Dropped a line
- Put on paper
- Authored
- Corresponded
- Put pen to paper
- Emulated Anne Rice
- Emulated Emerson
- Scribbled on paper
More clues leading to the result BERATE
- Take to task
- Tear into
- Scold
- Chew out
- Give a tongue-lashing to
- Dress down
- Tell off big-time
- Assail verbally
- Put down
- Chide
More clues leading to the result DEMEANED
More clues leading to the result LOWER
- Decrease
- Devaluate
- Remove, as artwork
- Request from one getting a backrub
- Put down
- Mark down in price
- Reduce
- Bring down
- Bunk option
- Not as high
More clues leading to the result SNUB
- Rebuff
- Leave off the nominations
- Oscar ___ (the Academy's choice not to nominate a critically acclaimed work)
- Turn one's nose up
- Un-invite, maybe
- Slight
- Social insult
- Ignore contemptuously
- Affront
- High-hat
More clues leading to the result LAIN
- Stretch out
- Reposed
- Reclined
- Been in bed
- Rested
- Rested (on)
- Deposited
- Stretched out
- Gone belly up?
- Having reclined
More clues leading to the result PLACE
- Win show go-between
- Do better than show
- Come in second, at the track
- More of quip
- Ones or tens, for example
- Site
- Set
- Hundreds, e.g.
- Put down
- Come in second
More clues leading to the result ASPERSE
- Spread false charges against
- Spread slander
- Cast slander at
- Denigrate
- Denigrate through insinuation
- Slander
- Bad-mouth
- Sully
- Baptize
- Malign
More clues leading to the result STIFLE
- Bunker command?
- Suppress
- Suppress, as a cough
- Sit on
- Put a lid on
- Horse's knee
- Suppress, as a yawn
- Archie Bunker command
- Squelch
- Archie's admonition to Edith
More clues leading to the result DENIGRATE
More clues leading to the result DISS
- Insulting type of track
- Engage in trash talk
- Trash talk
- Treat rudely
- ___ track (rap track intended to insult)
- Insult
- Ph.D. hurdle
- Thesis: Abbr.
- Grass of Mediterranean region.
- Ph.D. ms.
More clues leading to the result BELITTLE
More clues leading to the result PLUNK
- Twang, as a guitar
- Put (down), as cash
- Squarely, informally
- Set (down) heavily
- Put (down) heavily
- Plop (down)
- Put (down), as a bet
- "Splosh!"
- Coin-on-the-counter sound
- Spend, with "down"
More clues leading to the result REBUKE
More clues leading to the result WRITE
- Pen
- Author
- Jot down
- Use a pen
- Do some Picayune work
- Make plays?
- Put pen to paper
- Keep in touch
- Correspond
- Make tracts
More clues leading to the result PENNED
- Cooped up
- Wrote
- Authored
- Cooped
- Confined, as pigs
- In a sty, say
- Corralled, with "in"
- In a coop
- Fenced (in)
- Put down
More clues leading to the result REPRESS
- Block parties when you were completely wasted, say
- Hold back
- Stifle
- Keep in, as feelings
- Keep in check
- Hold back.
- Overpower.
- Quell.
- Hold down.
- Hold in check.
More clues leading to the result NOTED
- Renowned
- Illustrious
- Made mention of
- Well-known
- Famous
- Paid attention to
- "Copy that"
- Prominent
- Observed
- Eminent
More clues leading to the result JAB
- Boxer's blow
- Poke
- Start of a one-two
- Thrust
- Holyfield lead
- Poke at Evander
- Poke or prod
- Boxer's defense
- Punch
- Quick move from Pacquiao
More clues leading to the result DEGRADE
- Put down
- Lower
- Reduce in rank.
- Take down a peg.
- Bring low.
- Humble.
- Lower in rank.
- Lower in status.
- Drag in the dust.
- Bring into contempt
More clues leading to the result RIP
- Lacerate
- __-roaring
- Come apart
- Cut apart
- En-graved letters?
- __ off (steal)
- Run in a stocking, e.g.
- Final sentiment, initially
- Torn from Texas
- ___-roaring start?
More clues leading to the result ALIGHTED
More clues leading to the result TAUNT
- Poke fun at
- Harass from the stands, say
- Ride
- Fresh cut?
- Ride hard
- Bully
- Ridicule
- Say "nyah-nyah" to
- Trash-talk
- Mock
More clues leading to the result BADMOUTH
More clues leading to the result DEPRESS
More clues leading to the result CRUSHED
- ___ red pepper (pizza condiment)
- Put down
- Like some garlic and egos
- With 47-Down, snow cone's base
- Terribly upset
- Completely humiliated
- Like some ice and velvet
More clues leading to the result ENTERED
- Took part in
- Signed up for
- Went in
- Keyed in
- Became a member of
- Typed in
- Came on stage
- Chose to compete in
- Popped in
- Came in
More clues leading to the result DEBASED
- Lowered
- Made to feel insignificant
- Lowered in dignity
- Corrupted
- Depreciated.
- Adulterated.
- Reduced in value.
- Lowered.
- Adulterated
- Lowered in value
More clues leading to the result SUBDUE
- Keep down
- Pin in a ring, perhaps
- Overcome
- Overpower by force
- Tame
- Put down
- Quash
- Pin in a ring, say
- Bring under control
- Quell
More clues leading to the result PAN
- Give one star to
- God often pictured with pipes
- Forty-niners tool
- Move while filming
- Play critic
- Scathing review
- Rotate the camera
- Omelet-maker's need, unless you boil your omelets or cook them in the toaster I suppose
- Critically disdain
- Muffin tin, e.g.
More clues leading to the result LAND
- Catch
- Touch down
- Secure, as a contract
- __ O' Lakes butter
- Come down
- Instant photography pioneer
- Property
- Reach the runway
- Nail, as a client
- Reel in
More clues leading to the result PLUNKED
More clues leading to the result INTER
- Action or change intro
- Com or face lead-in
- ___ alia
- Prefix meaning "reciprocal"
- __ alia
- Put under
- Lay to rest
- Bury
- Part of ICBM
- Work as an undertaker
More clues leading to the result CUT
- Kick off the team
- "This take is garbage"
- Song, as it were
- Sporting a six-pack, say
- Director's cry
- Share
- "Stop shooting!"
- Edit menu word
- Movie release
- Slice
More clues leading to the result AFFRONT
- Deliberate insult
- Act of disrespect
- Indignity
- Insult
- Pique
- Slap in the face
- Offend by open disrespect.
- Slight.
- Intentional insult.
- Insult.
More clues leading to the result DEFLATE
- Take down a peg
- Wind down?
- Let down
- Take the wind out of
- Let the air out
- Let some air out of
- Release air from
- Take the air out of
- Get out of shape, in a way
- Remove the air from.
More clues leading to the result LANDED
- Hit the beach, militarily
- Arrived, in a way
- Came ashore
- Possessed of property
- ___ gentry
- Touched down
- Caught, as a fish
- Secured, as a job
- Alit
- Put down
More clues leading to the result DISPARAGED
More clues leading to the result INSULT
- Affront
- "Yo Mama" joke line, e.g.
- It may be added to injury
- Rickles riposte
- Dig
- Dis
- Offensive remark
- Slight
- Don Rickles specialty
- Refusal of hospitality, often
More clues leading to the result ALIGHT
- Land
- Dismount
- Hit the runway
- Disembark
- Come down
- Go to ground
- Dismount from a horse
- Come down to earth
- Settle down
- Touch down
More clues leading to the result BELITTLEMENT
More clues leading to the result DEPOSITED
More clues leading to the result LOWERED
- Reduced
- Degraded
- Discounted
- Frowned.
- Scowled.
- Reduced.
- Humbled
- What Clancy did with the boom
- Demeaned
- Brought down
More clues leading to the result JOT
- Scribble (down)
- Write hastily
- Write (down), on a napkin perhaps
- Put (down)
- Small scribble
- Smitch
- Tiny portion
- Write in a hurry
- Take (down)
- Tiny bit
More clues leading to the result BERATED
- Gave someone the business
- Raked over the coals
- Put down
- Scolded
- Dressed down
- Reprimanded
- Scolded.
- Chided vehemently.
- Tongue-lashed.
- Vehemently rebuked.
More clues leading to the result SLANDER
- Debase
- Falsely malign
- Defame
- Smear with mud, say
- Actionable words
- Defamation
- Defamation of a sort
- Dirt, so to speak
- Bad-mouth
- Libel's spoken equivalent